He Xiangu's character story

He Xiangu, formerly known as He Qiong, was born in an ordinary peasant family in Lingling in the first year of Yao Kai, Tang Gaozong. The locals said that on the day when He Qiong was born, a bright and auspicious purple airflow enveloped He's cabin, and a group of cranes danced up and down in the purple airflow. In a short time, a strong sika deer rushed into He's house with a girl with pigtails and a red Chinese-style chest covering. At this time, he gave birth to a chubby baby girl.

Speaking of He Qiong's hometown Lingling, it is a beautiful place. According to Historical Records, "Shun was buried in Jiuqi in the south of the Yangtze River as Lingling." Saint Shun Di was buried in Kyubi no Youko Mountain, Lingling. Lingling city is located at the intersection of Xiaoxiang, with Nanyue Hengshan Mountain in the north and Wuling Mountain in the south. It is the gateway of Chu and Yue. There is a mica mountain in the west of Lingling county, which is rich in five-color mica, which is a good medicine for seeking immortality in ancient times; A clear and winding stream flows down from the mountain, called mica stream, and He Qiong's home is next to the beautiful mica stream.

He Qiong, who grew up drinking mica water, grew up beautiful and witty. Since she was a child, she likes to play and wander by mica creek alone. At the age of fourteen, she met a white-haired old man with a long beard by the mica stream. The old man asked her some local scenery, and He Qiong answered them wisely. The old man is very happy. He took out a fresh flat peach from his backpack and handed it to He Qiong. He Qiong took it, thanked the old man, and then ate the flat peach three times five divided by two. The old man watched her finish eating, smiled and nodded, turned around and disappeared. After returning home, He Qiong hasn't felt hungry for several days. He doesn't want to eat, but his spirit is stronger than before. A month later, He Qiong met Ling next to Mica Creek. This time, the old man took her to Muyun Mountain and taught her how to collect mica and how to take it. He Qiong, according to his words, eats mica on mica mountain every day, and gradually feels as light as a swan, traveling to and from the top of the mountain and walking like a fly. Besides, she can identify and pick all kinds of herbs in the mountains, treat all kinds of diseases for people nearby and predict personnel, so people around her call her "He Xiangu".

The news of He Qiong's immortality spread like wildfire, and finally reached the ears of Wu Zetian, an imperial envoy in Beijing.

At that time, Wu Zetian was the queen of Tang Gaozong, but she held the real power of the imperial court. Wu Zetian believed in Buddhism under the influence of her mother since she was a child. After becoming a queen, she tried her best to promote Buddhism in the palace and the whole country, hoping to overwhelm the Taoist momentum admired by Li Tang and take some Buddhist scriptures as the theoretical basis for her usurpation. Buddhism "Fa Xiang Zong" advocates "two emptiness", that is, treating self and everything as emptiness, in order to achieve the lofty realm of the unity of all things in the universe and me; In layman's terms, it is to understand with your heart and let yourself forget everything, and then you can soar in the daytime, walk in the clouds and live forever. Wu Zetian is very convinced of this. She was very interested when she heard that there was a He Xiangu in Lingling where she could travel freely on the top of the mountain. She specially sent someone to visit and gave He Xiangu a morning glow suit. He Xiangu accepted the morning glow suit and put it on happily. People around heard the news and came from all directions to see it. I saw He Xiangu's body shining and dazzling, as if she were a fairy; The villagers were so frightened that they could not help kneeling on the ground and kneeling in front of He Xiangu. He Xiangu was quite complacent, but her mother was greatly frightened and thought, "Who dares to marry such a daughter!"

As expected, when He Xiangu was eighteen, her mother earnestly asked the matchmaker to choose a husband for her. Although He Xiangu is as beautiful as a flower, no one dares to marry her because of her superb skills. What does mother worry about? He Xiangu himself has nothing to do. He goes out of rural Shan Ye all day and is busy collecting herbs to treat people, leading a very fulfilling life.

One day, He Xiangu went deep into the dense forest of Mica Mountain to collect herbs and met two magical people. One of them was a lame old man, leaning on an iron cane and carrying a huge wine gourd on his back, looking like a beggar. The other was dressed in a neat blue shirt, with a medicine hoe in his hand and a medicine basket on his shoulder, and his expression was very elegant. Not far in front of He Xiangu, two Sang Men whispered again. After a while, they flew away and suddenly disappeared. These two men are Tie Guai Li and Lan Caihe of the Eight Immortals. He Xiangu noticed their appearance, chanting the formula of stealing, thinking that he could fly over the valley of Feng Ling like them. Since then, she has often come to the mountains to practice quietly, and her posture has become more and more skilled, and she can fly farther and farther. With this kind of kung fu, she often flies to distant mountains and rushes back and forth, bringing back some strange mountain fruits for her family to taste. The family felt sweet and delicious after eating it, but they didn't know what fruit it was.

Seeing that she goes out early and comes back late every day, she becomes suspicious and asks where she went and what she did. He Xiangu couldn't beat her mother, saying that she went to the famous mountains and fairyland to talk about Buddhism and Taoism with the immortal Buddha every day. Gradually, the news that He Xiangu was familiar with Buddhism and Taoism spread again. When Wu Zetian heard about it, she sent messengers to Lingling to prepare for the funeral, and called He Xiangu to Luoyang, the eastern capital, to discuss Buddhism and Taoism. The officials followed He Xiangu to Luoyang City. When the boat passed waterinfo, everyone suddenly disappeared from He Xiangu's sight. The envoys panicked and hurriedly ordered people to look around, but found no clues. Everyone was so scared that they sat in a daze by the Luohe River. At dusk, He Xiangu flew down in the air and told the messenger unhurriedly: "I have gone to the Forbidden Palace to meet the queen of heaven, so you can report back to the DPRK."

The envoys returned to Luoyang Palace with a grain of salt. As soon as they inquired, it was He Xiangu who visited the marquis of Wu that day and had a long talk with her in the palace, which surprised the envoys.

It is said that He Xiangu talked with Wuhou in the palace about the art of immortality. She persuaded Wuhou that if you want to live a long life, you must first be lust, silence and he who sees through fame and fortune; Secondly, we should do more good deeds, curb torture, prohibit false waste, implement benevolent policies, and Xiu De will accumulate blessings. At the same time, she also talked about the way of governing the country and keeping the country safe. She must be virtuous and far away, and never take a different surname as an heir. What she said was actually aimed at Wu Hou.

Wuhou is a clever man. After listening to He Xiangu's reasonable words, she gradually put them into action. Soon, Lai Junchen and other brutal officials were punished by law. Later, the sage Di was reused: as for the heir, the marquis of Wu wanted to make his nephew Wu a prince, but under Di's advice, she followed the advice of Xian Gu and gave up the original intention of changing her surname. As for abstinence, abstinence, who sees through fame and fortune, Wu Zetian, who has always been addicted to lust and power, has never been able to do it, so-called to the point of humiliating the country.

In order to repay He Xiangu's kindness, Wu Zetian specially ordered the local officials of Lingling to build a magnificent Huixian Pavilion at Phoenix Terrace in the south of Lingling, as the place where He Xiangu preached the Dharma. After giving lectures, He Xiangu often sits on the stone steps in front of the museum, peels off a round fairy fruit and throws it around. Later, lychee trees were planted around Huixian Museum, and the lychees on these trees were all green lychees. People call it "Phoenix Terrace with Litchi Hanging Green".

He Xiangu also wrote a poem "Phoenix Terrace":

Phoenix mica is like smallpox, refined into lotus and white clouds;

Laughing fanatics have no opinions, and where to find cinnabar.

On the surface, this poem is written on the Phoenix Terrace, but in fact it hides the true meaning of seeking truth from food and the method of taking mica. People say that He Xiangu is a Taoist believer from the characteristics of feeding and practicing; Some people attributed her to a Buddhist disciple according to the ideological content of her sermon. In fact, He Xiangu can be said to be a Taoist or a Buddhist, but he is not a Taoist or a non-Buddhist. Reached the realm of harmony between man and nature. How can earthly Buddhism and Taoism frame her?

One day, He Xiangu was suddenly inspired and wrote a poem entitled "Ma Gu Feng":

Ma Gu laughed that I fell in love with the hubbub, and I stayed away from Xian Fan Lu.

Fly to Cangzhou to get the bright moon, ride the yellow crane and listen to the flute.

This poem full of fairy rhyme seems to imply some kind of omen. Sure enough, one day in the first year of Jinglong in Tang Zhongzong, 26-year-old He Xiangu sat on the Phoenix Platform, looking up at the distant sky, and suddenly saw Tie Guai Li standing in the distant clouds, waving his iron cane, as if to say hello to her. Unconsciously, He Xiangu's body rises like Cai Fengran Ran, and rises in the air, followed by Tie Guai Li. At this time, a beaded shoe on her foot fell to the ground. The next day, a well suddenly appeared where the beaded shoes fell. Well water is clear and sweet, and it smells strange. The well site around it is shaped like an arched shoe. The local people built the He Xiangu Temple by the well, and the incense was growing. Because the water in the well is not only cool to quench thirst, but also can cure all diseases, and people from far and near are talking about it.

It has been more than 30 years since Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty became an immortal in He Xiangu. After a day of heavy rain, the blue sky was washed, and people in Lingling saw a colorful auspicious cloud floating leisurely. He Xiangu stood in the clouds wearing a morning glow suit. While people knelt down to worship, a bunch of yellow silk fell from the air to the phoenix stage, which read a poem like this:

Mica creek wins the rooftop, and thousands of trees bloom;

Yu Di blew through Huanglong Cave, but did not lead the crane.

Give a message to the Zhang family and Li Jiafa, and your body will be idle;

Penglai's weak water is now clear and shallow, and flowers are everywhere to protect the moon.

The fairy has entered Wei Zi, and the water town is still slow to look back;

For thousands of years, I left my shoes by the well, saying that I knew the fairy in the thatched cottage.

This poem contains nostalgia for hometown scenery, exhortation to villagers, and narration of the lonely feeling of immortal life, persuading mortals to cherish their own lives. Everyone says that immortals are good, but immortals have troubles. When you are advised to cherish mortals, don't wait for time to disappear! " He Xiangu was the daughter of He Tai in Zengcheng, Guangzhou in the Tang Dynasty.

Fairy Wonderland says: He Xiangu is a daughter named He Tai from Zengcheng, Guangzhou. I was born with six hairs on my head. At the age of sixteen, he dreamed that a fairy taught him: "Eating mica powder can strengthen your body and live forever." So she listened to the fairy's instructions, ate mica, vowed not to marry, and often traveled to and from the valley, hiking like flying. Go out every morning and bring some wild fruits back to her mother at night. After gradually not eating whole grains, Wu Zetian sent envoys to call her into the palace and suddenly disappeared on her way to Beijing. After that, the immortal was born during the day. In the ninth year of Tang Tianbao, he appeared in Magu altar, standing in five clouds, and then appeared in Xiaoshilou, Guangzhou.

Song Zengmin's "Awakening Alone" magazine records: "Di Qing passed Yongzhou when he fought for Nannong in his early years. He heard that He Xiangu could predict good and bad luck, so he specially asked about the outcome of the war. He Xiangu said: "You don't have to see a thief. A thief will leave after defeat." Di Qing didn't believe it at first. Later, Song Jun Pioneer fought with the soldiers of Nannong Gaozhi. After several rounds, Kochi was defeated and fled to Dali. Legend has it that He Xiangu (real name He Xiang) is the child bride of the He family in Dongmen. She was abused by her mother-in-law, and he opened a restaurant. One day, neither mother-in-law nor father-in-law were in the restaurant, only He Xiang was in the restaurant, and seven beggars came. He Xiang saw that they were poor, so she gave them half a bowl of noodles left in the restaurant. He Xiang told seven people to eat quickly. When her mother-in-law came, she couldn't explain it. Seven people still ate slowly.

Seven people have finished eating for a long time, and He Xiang hasn't come to wash the dishes yet. My mother-in-law went to the restaurant and found that the noodles were gone, so she asked where the noodles were. He Xiangru had to say that some beggars had just arrived and gave them food. Mother-in-law was furious after hearing this, and said, "You are getting bolder and bolder. You dare to give away everything at home." He asked Adan to ask seven people for money.

Adan managed to catch up. When the seven men came back, they had no money to pay the bill. Her mother-in-law took a basin and asked the seven people to spit out the food. The seven men had no money, so they had to do it and vomited a pot. Mother-in-law said that she took out the garbage and let He Xiang eat it. He Xiang was afraid of being bullied, so she cried and ate, during which a yellow dog and black-bone chicken scrambled for food. After eating, I feel dizzy and my body is falling. When she left, she took a yellow dog and a black-bone chicken and sold the blame collection (now a small collection in huangqiao town) on the ground. This is the origin of the idiom "One man gets the word, and chickens and dogs ascend to heaven". Later, because of his kindness and helpfulness, he was honored as "He Xiangu" and built a tombstone for everyone. Up to now, the tombstone still stands on Yingshang to manage Gu Village. It is said that in order to eat fresh lychees in the south, Emperor Tang Ming and Yang Guifei ordered all the post stations to send lychees at once, so there is an eternal story that "riding a princess in the world of mortals, no one knows it is lychee". The king of litchi, "Zengcheng Guaqing", is famous all over the world because of the "immortal spirit" of He Xiangu. In the early Qing Dynasty, Qu Dajun's Guangdong Xinyu said that "hanging green lychees is as crisp as pears, but the pulp will remain unchanged for three days". Unique, this litchi has a green line mark from the pedicle to the top, so it is called "hanging green". This litchi tree is in an orchard in Zengcheng, Guangdong. He Xiangu, an old friend, came by chance to enjoy the cool under the litchi tree and hung his green belt on it. This tree was infected with "immortal spirit" and produced "hanging green litchi". Its delicious and refreshing fruit won the admiration of eaters, and its reputation spread far and wide immediately. Now, there is an original He Xiangu Temple in Zengcheng. There is a well in front of the temple and a couplet on the gate:

The traces of Dan Jing for thousands of years,

EMI worships the ancients.

According to legend, it was from this well that He Xiangu finally entered Xiandao. When she left, she left an embroidered shoe on the well platform. Later generations called this well "the well of asking immortals", which attracted believers from all over the world to worship. He Xiangu rose to immortality during the day, becoming the only red powder among the Eight Immortals, and forming a little red in the evergreen trees. After He Xiangu became an immortal, he never forgot the sufferings of the world, and often visited the south to eliminate the epidemic and save the suffering. All good people need her help. As long as they pray silently to the sky, she will come like "timely rain" and give people magical power.

He Xiangu once wrote a poem warning mortals: "mica creek is better than rooftop, and thousands of trees bloom;" Yu Di blew through Huanglong Cave, but did not lead the crane. Give a message to the Zhang family and Li Jiafa, and your body will be idle; Penglai's weak water is now clear and shallow, and flowers are everywhere to protect the moon. The fairy has entered Wei Zi, and the water town is still slow to look back; For thousands of years, I took the shoes by the well and said that I knew the fairy in the thatched cottage. "Her main advice to mortals is to cherish their own lives, which we should keep in mind." Everyone says fairies are good, but fairies have troubles. When you are advised to cherish mortals, don't wait for time to disappear! "